To: Design Team Members (Gabriel Paez, Denise Rendon, Jessica Ravelo, Brian Cramp, Joe Davidock, Lilia Storey) From: Gabriel Paez Date: 5/18/11
Topic: Meeting with Jane Patterson,Los Angeles Education Partnership
Date of meeting: 5/11/11, 6th Period In Attendance:
- CHAMPS: Rebecca Frank, Terri-Ann Sullivan, Greg Vierra, Merri Weir
- ATCA: Gabriel Paez, Jessica Ravelo, Joe Davidock
How to get your proposal passed:
- Be INNOVATIVE: If we look like any other LAUSD comprehensive high school that is maintaining the status quo, we will be rejected. We need to show we are going to do something different.
- Three things we need to do: 1) How is Curriculum and Instruction different? 2) How are we going to engage the community? 3) What will our Professional Learning and Development look like?
Who is LAEP and what do they offer us?
- Part of the Policy Education Network
- They receive funding from Private sources
- 10 schools are within their network
- They are designed to help and advocate for Humanitas style, inter-disciplinary approach to education
LAEP can help us:
- Write our proposal through their meaningful and productive writing sessions
- Give feedback on proposals
- Help us look for funds through the Education Support Network
- Possibly fund Professional Development
To work with LAEP:
- We must commit to inter-disciplinary and thematic teaching
- This means: faculty commits to planning curriculum together in grade level teams; teachers commit to looking at student work together; curriculum is thematic and aligned both vertically and horizontally
Pilot Schools:
There are two ways that Pilot Schools can be formed: Conversion or Start Up
- Conversion: SLC faculty must decide to go Pilot, 50% vote
- Start Up: a group of teachers decide to create a Pilot, they staff school themselves. JP was opposed to this method, as she has seen it done at Lincoln HS. The Start Up created great division on campus, displaced teachers, and they were looked at as “commandeering space”
Staffing:
- Teachers need to sign the Elect to Work Agreement (E2W)
- Teachers should be hired from SLC and then within the school and then from the LAUSD pool of teachers
- Unsure if this protocol was just during aRIF or Hiring Freeze
- “Excess-ing” teachers is the euphemism for removing teachers from the Pilot school
- Make the E2W aligned to highest principles and goals: for example, create an Open Door policy or mandatory PD (there are lots of things to include to keep teachers who don’t want to do the work from joining)
- Distributive Leadership is KEY: all teachers need to agree to take on something extra
-
Administration:
- it’s ok to write the school plan without an Administrator attached to Design Team
- ½ the proposals have Admin attached
- Local Superintendent can overturn the Design/Hiring committee’s Admin choice
WholeSchoolPlan:
- Recommends we submit our proposal along with Carson HS’s larger, whole plan. She likes the idea of an SBAM with two Pilots attached.
Miscellaneous Notes:
- LASDI is a group of retired Teachers and Administrators that receive funding from the Chamber of Commerce, and they give guidance on the proposals
- We need to build relationships with District Leadership—Vladovic, Romero, Fletcha. They can help guide us through and give us feedback. Plus, this process is political.
Joe or Jessica, is there anything I’m missing here?
From: Gabriel Paez
Date: 5/18/11
Topic: Meeting with Jane Patterson,Los Angeles Education Partnership
Date of meeting: 5/11/11, 6th Period
In Attendance:
- CHAMPS: Rebecca Frank, Terri-Ann Sullivan, Greg Vierra, Merri Weir
- ATCA: Gabriel Paez, Jessica Ravelo, Joe Davidock
How to get your proposal passed:
- Be INNOVATIVE: If we look like any other LAUSD comprehensive high school that is maintaining the status quo, we will be rejected. We need to show we are going to do something different.
- Three things we need to do: 1) How is Curriculum and Instruction different? 2) How are we going to engage the community? 3) What will our Professional Learning and Development look like?
Who is LAEP and what do they offer us?
- Part of the Policy Education Network
- They receive funding from Private sources
- 10 schools are within their network
- They are designed to help and advocate for Humanitas style, inter-disciplinary approach to education
LAEP can help us:
- Write our proposal through their meaningful and productive writing sessions
- Give feedback on proposals
- Help us look for funds through the Education Support Network
- Possibly fund Professional Development
To work with LAEP:
- We must commit to inter-disciplinary and thematic teaching
- This means: faculty commits to planning curriculum together in grade level teams; teachers commit to looking at student work together; curriculum is thematic and aligned both vertically and horizontally
Pilot Schools:
There are two ways that Pilot Schools can be formed: Conversion or Start Up
- Conversion: SLC faculty must decide to go Pilot, 50% vote
- Start Up: a group of teachers decide to create a Pilot, they staff school themselves. JP was opposed to this method, as she has seen it done at Lincoln HS. The Start Up created great division on campus, displaced teachers, and they were looked at as “commandeering space”
Staffing:
- Teachers need to sign the Elect to Work Agreement (E2W)
- Teachers should be hired from SLC and then within the school and then from the LAUSD pool of teachers
- Unsure if this protocol was just during aRIF or Hiring Freeze
- “Excess-ing” teachers is the euphemism for removing teachers from the Pilot school
- Make the E2W aligned to highest principles and goals: for example, create an Open Door policy or mandatory PD (there are lots of things to include to keep teachers who don’t want to do the work from joining)
- Distributive Leadership is KEY: all teachers need to agree to take on something extra
-
Administration:
- it’s ok to write the school plan without an Administrator attached to Design Team
- ½ the proposals have Admin attached
- Local Superintendent can overturn the Design/Hiring committee’s Admin choice
Whole School Plan:
- Recommends we submit our proposal along with Carson HS’s larger, whole plan. She likes the idea of an SBAM with two Pilots attached.
Miscellaneous Notes:
- LASDI is a group of retired Teachers and Administrators that receive funding from the Chamber of Commerce, and they give guidance on the proposals
- We need to build relationships with District Leadership—Vladovic, Romero, Fletcha. They can help guide us through and give us feedback. Plus, this process is political.
Joe or Jessica, is there anything I’m missing here?